Horry County ScArchives Obituaries.....Booth, Lewis Scarborough, Rev., December 7, 1908
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Horry Herald December 17, 1908
Entered Into Rest
After a Loving and Well Spent Life
Rev. L. S. Booth Dies

At his home near here, on Monday December 7th, 1908, Rev. L. S. Booth a 
Baptist minister, fell asleep in the 62nd year of his age, and was laid to 
rest the following day in the cemetery at Poplar church, in the presence of a 
large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends. The services were 
conducted by Rev. D. D. Anderson, assisted by Rev. J. C. Davis of the 
Methodist church.

It can truthfully be said that a good man has fallen and his loss will be 
keenly felt by his family and friends and in the churches with which he was 
identified. However, in death her gains for the grace that supported him 
through life was with him at last and he met death triumphantly. While 
suffering unceasingly, he sang some of the sweet songs of Zion, prayed and 
preached Jesus on his dying bed: Like Job of old he was able to say: “Though 
they slay me, yet will I trust Thee.” Just before dying, he expressed his 
desire to go and asked his family to meet him in Heaven.

Brother Booth embraced religion and joined the church of his choice in early 
life and served he church in the capacity of a leader, exhorter until the time 
of his death and was an ordained preacher. He was a teacher and superintendent 
of the Sunday school for many years. He did not have the advantage of a first 
class education, but by close application, especially in the study of the 
Bible he was able to preach sermons worthy of many pulpits and the best of all 
he lived the lived he professed was a living witness for Christ and the 
summons found he doing valiant service in the saving of souls to the glory of 
God. At the time he was taken sick he was attending the session of the 
Waccamaw Baptist Association at Loris and suffered for three weeks without a 
murmur.

Mr. Booth was a faithful Confederate solider and shortly after the war he 
married a daughter of the late Pettaway Cartrette and seven children, two sons 
and five daughters were born unto them. One son, A. H. Booth, a prominent 
young lawyer is no practicing in Georgia.

The writer was acquainted with him for forty years and under every 
circumstance, always found him to be a true man in every respect of a cheerful 
disposition, he looked for the best in everything and his life was a shining 
light and example to the community in which he lived. 

D. D. A.

Adrian, S. C.

Additional Comments:

Son of John James Booth and Olive Booth. Husband of Rebecca Jane Cartrette Booth, 
buried at Poplar Methodist Church Conway, Horry County, South Carolina.


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